October 7, 2012
This is outside of my established “radius” for the New Providence area, but it’s still New Jersey, and it’s kind of awesome.
The sixth annual Asbury Park Zombie Walk happened yesterday. I didn’t stay for the whole thing (shame on me!), but I did get some fun shots of the undead wandering around Asbury Park (which happens less often than you’d think).
More serious readers may ask: What’s the point?
I would answer: There is no point. It’s fun, that’s the point.
April 5, 2012
Everyone loves a good sunset!
Some people do not love a good flock of seagulls, but y’know, it’s their loss.
April 3, 2012
In the Asbury Park Casino, where lots of murals have been painted in the last few years, there is a rainbow dripping down one of the exterior columns. It’s kind of horrible, and kind of beautiful. But you can decide for yourself.
April 1, 2012
This is the Ocean Grove fishing pier.
(I love it when a photo is really juicy right out of the camera. Like this. Bam.)
(Well. I did straighten it and nudge the white point a little, but that’s it, I swear.)
March 18, 2012
Some people like to take their dogs out on lonely beaches to give ’em some exercise. (It’s more difficult to do this when there are people laying about everywhere.)
Ahhh, the good old days of two weeks ago! It was still chilly then.
February 5, 2012
Sometimes, if you time your trip to Sandy Hook just right, you can take a tour of the lighthouse!
Based on notes I took when I did the tour in 2009, this is the same Fresnel lens that they installed in the 1850s (right around when they switched from oil to kerosene). About 50 years later, right around the turn of the century, they switched from kerosene to an incandescent bulb, and I *think* Sandy Hook was the first lighthouse to implement such a modern bulb.
If that’s true, isn’t it neat?
February 3, 2012
February 1, 2012
Ocean Grove’s Manchester Inn was a landmark of the town until it burned down in winter 2010. I was in Chicago at the time, but my parents called to tell me the news, and they mailed me some newspaper clippings about the story. It was a Big Deal.
This is what was left of it by July 2010. I think they’ve cleaned it up better by now, and I’m told there might be new construction starting soon.
Monmouth County Daily Photo 